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MAGNETIC DAMAGE TO FAMILY VIDEO TAPES Magnetic tape damage is pretty common. Family tapes store video and audio information in the form of a magnetic strip. The VCR has special heads that can pick up on these magnetic signals and translate them into images and sound that plays on your TV. While magnets are used to write information to the tape, they are also used to erase footage from your tape. Since VHS uses an iron oxide as its formula, this makes them very susceptible to magnetic damage. A tape that has been exposed to magnetic damage is nearly always irreparable. There is no way to recover footage that has been magnetically erased or damaged. The best bet is to make sure you keep your video tapes away from anything resembling a magnet! CLIENT CASE Unfortunately one of our clients contacted us Friday with regard to his family Hi8 video tapes that had been damaged by the magnetic field given off by a mobile phone. He asked whether our company would be able to help recover ...

AUDIO CASSETTE TO HQ HERITAGE WAV FILES One of our unique and interesting orders that arrived this week was in the form of an old audio cassette tape.   On this tape is a recording of 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles attack that hit Israel during this very troubled time. Our role is to convert the audio into an archival WAV file with audio restoration applied to remove the audio cassette issues of hiss and age related wear. This order has sentimental value as both the client and his wife were in a hotel when the Scud missiles hit.  Iraq had attacked two Israeli cities with Scud missiles, prompting fears that Israel may be drawn into the Gulf War. Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, its main seaport, were hit in the attacks, which began at 0300 local time (0100 GMT), when most residents were asleep. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/18/newsid_4588000/4588486.stm

Audio Recording Through the Ages – Oxford Duplication Centre The late 19 th and 20 th centuries brought with them a huge range of exciting technological developments, including everything from the advent of electrification to railways, telecommunications and engines.  However, an often overlooked breakthrough was the development of audio recording technology – before 1877, there was no way to record and play back sound and music. It’s mindblowing to consider this, especially as today we can digitally encode audio and store thousands of songs on a smartphone! So how did we get to this stage? The 20 th century brought rapid developments to the world of audio, with new technologies transforming formats and production methods every few decades. For example, the earliest technology that could reproduce sound – Thomas Edison’s phonograph – used wax cylinders to store the resulting audio, but the end result was often low quality and with poor fidelity. The ...

Oxford Duplication Centre Audio Recording to CD, WAV, AIFF, MP3 SO WHAT IS WIRE RECORDING? Wire recording or magnetic wire recording was the first early magnetic recording technology. An analog type of audio storage in which a magnetic recording was made on a thin steel wire. The first crude recorder was invented in 1898 by Danish inventor  Valdemar Poulsen.   With the first magnetic audio recorder to be made commercially available anywhere was The Telegraphone, which was manufactured by the American Telegraphone Company in Springfield Massachusetts. HOW DOES IT WORK? The wire is pulled rapidly across a recording head which magnetises each point along the wire in accordance with the intensity and polarity of the electrical audio signal being supplied to the recording head at that instant.   By later drawing the wire across the same or similar head whilst the head is not being supplied with an electrical signal, the varying magnetic fie...

'You Can't See the Join!' - Recovering Morecambe and Wise Posted by  BBC Research and Development  on 29 Dec 2017, last updated 30 Dec 2017 A regular TV tradition  at this time of year is the repeat of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas specials  and 2017 is no exception  - there is even a  special BBC FOUR drama about the pair on air this evening too . We thought readers might enjoy  a good tale of some work we're involved with - to recover an episode of the comedy duo's TV series  that was previously considered 'lost'. It involves some pretty advanced tech development work -  a 'diseased' film, a trip to Nigeria, dentistry, lasers, X-ray tomography, algorithms and some goo...  Television archiving expert  Charles Norton  writes about his involvement with the work in the  first of this three part series . In 1968,  ITV lost Morecambe and Wise . The famous comedy duo‘s contr...

CD CONVERSION & RIPPING SERVICES OXFORDSHIRE UK  We offer a professional service that quickly and easily converts your entire CD collection into digital music files suitable for your digital music player. Enjoy the full potential of your Digital Music System (Linn, Moon, Auralic, Sonos, Naim etc) with these professionally created files without any hassle. Converting audio CDs into the following formats: Apple Lossless, FLAC, MP3, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, WMA Lossless, WAV, and more. Inclusive Collection and Delivery of your CDs High quality conversion techniques Multiple formats available - including lossless formats Help and advice loading your digital music player Comprehensive and consistent album, artist, track data Album art when available Pricing The following table shows the pricing per audio CD and the discounts available for larger orders. ** The minimum order value is 50CDs or £50.00.  All prices exclude VAT @ 20% Number of CDs Single File Format Price f...